Week Two: Video

2.2 Why is Health Care so Expensive in the U.S.?

In this last video, John Green explains why health care in the U.S. is so expensive when compared to other OECD countries. While you watch this video, think about the research that might have gone into the fact claims and statistics presented. Also think about what other research we might need to determine if high costs of health care is a social problem in the U.S.

Links provided for the video (annoyingly one of the links is for the NY Times, so you will hit a paywall if you have already read three of their online articles this month, like I have, and don't have a subscription, like I don't):

For a much more thorough examination of health care expenses in America, I recommend this series at The Incidental Economist: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wor... The Commonwealth Fund's Study of Health Care Prices in the US: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/med... Some of the stats in this video also come from this New York Times story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/hea...